"Present generation...future generation" sounds a bit wordy to me.

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A gloomy future for medical students in China

According to the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, there were 17 243 cases of violent attacks against health-care workers in 2010, in China.1 On Oct 25, a patient beat a senior doctor (head of the Ear, Nose, and Throat department) to death, adding a new victim on this too-long list.2

Hospitals in China are deemed as dangerous working places, and being a medical practitioner has turned into a life-threatening job. The deteriorated relationship between health-care providers and patients not only affects the present generation of professionals, but also the future generation of doctors. National medical colleges warn that the number of medical students is decreasing,3 and medical students in their last year of MD or PhD programmes are hesitating to continue their career.4 Only one-sixth of the 600 000 medical licence owners have been registered to a health-care institution in the past 5 years; this means that 500 000 newly qualified young doctors have left medicine without using their medical licence. Many medical students have lost enthusiasm in pursuing their career, and wonder why this once respected profession has changed into a non-promising job.